Should contest rules allow and act upon 599K QRM reports?

Sunday, 1 December 2013

Bought one of these as my Microham cw keyer is a bit bulky and expensive for portable operation. I planned to use my K2 from the car for CQWW CW 2013 using the call MM3T. I have in the past experienced QRM from using USB to serial cables. The SUCCI-R uses a noise filter on the serial link and opto-isolators on the CW and PTT lines to keep noise to a minimum. Cables are simple to make up (same as cw keyer). My location was picked for it's proximity to the sea and height above it. Being very remote I had no QRM so could give the SUCCI-R a good hammering in the contest. After 10 hours of contesting with 400w and a vertical antenna right next to the car, I realised that the SUCCI-R had just worked with no noise, lock ups, corrupted keying or odd buffering that I have experienced with other interfaces. Just brilliant and I can highly recommend it. It's very well put together and required no extra driver Polava when connected to a windows 7 laptop. Work seamlessly with Wintest contest logging software.
http://www.kotarov.com/projects/succi

About Me

I love getting out and about with the radio. There's nothing better than camping out for field day or setting up a station on a mountain top. Nothing gives me a bigger kick than thinking something through, buying the bits, putting it together and then putting it to good use on the air. Radio for me is all about friendships, I've always been keen to share my thoughts and measure my own progress against others. The competative side of me keeps me moving onward, without competition I'd stall and settle.
I currently contest under the call MM3T, but have in the past operated under the calls GM0B and GM5A.